Current status and future perspectives of electron interactions with molecules, clusters, surfaces, and interfaces [Workshop on Fundamental challenges in electron-driven chemistry; Workshop on Electron-driven processes: Scientific challenges and technological opportunities]

Becker, Kurt H. ; McCurdy, C. William ; Orlando, Thomas M. ; Rescigno, Thomas N.

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (United States)

关键词: Chemical Reactions;    Light Sources;    75 Condensed Matter Physics, Superconductivity And Superfluidity;    Excitation;    38 Radiation Chemistry, Radiochemistry, And Nuclear Chemistry;   

DOI  :  10.2172/809935
RP-ID  :  NONE
RP-ID  :  FG02-00ER15038
RP-ID  :  809935

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report is based largely on presentations and discussions at two workshops and contributions from workshop participants. The workshop on Fundamental Challenges in Electron-Driven Chemistry was held in Berkeley, October 9-10, 1998, and addressed questions regarding theory, computation, and simulation. The workshop on Electron-Driven Processes: Scientific Challenges and Technological Opportunities was held at Stevens Institute of Technology, March 16-17, 2000, and focused largely on experiments. Electron-molecule and electron-atom collisions initiate and drive almost all the relevant chemical processes associated with radiation chemistry, environmental chemistry, stability of waste repositories, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, plasma processing of materials for microelectronic devices and other applications, and novel light sources for research purposes (e.g. excimer lamps in the extreme ultraviolet) and in everyday lighting applications. The life sciences are a rapidly advancing field where the important role of electron-driven processes is only now beginning to be recognized. Many of the applications of electron-initiated chemical processes require results in the near term. A large-scale, multidisciplinary and collaborative effort should be mounted to solve these problems in a timely way so that their solution will have the needed impact on the urgent questions of understanding the physico-chemical processes initiated and driven by electron interactions.